Interesting targets for NSMB Wii and Sports Resort... 10million this fiscal year. I don't doubt Sports Resort will hit 10 million within the fiscal year, and with NSMB Wii not out for several months yet, we can expect a very large advertising campaign through Q4 and Q1. Perhaps NSMB Wii will be bundled with the Wii for Q4?

Wii Music almost at 3 million and Animal Crossing passing 3 million is disappointing to Iwata?...was he expecting WiiFit/Mario Kart like sales?...if so, maybe it´s one of the (rare?) cases of Nintendo misreading their blue ocean market.

The problem with Wii Music was that it was too experimental. They wanted to do something with UGC, but they put it into a much too important game. They should have focused on the content (ie. more songs, and not just old free songs...)

I'm still hoping for a price cut to $199.99 in the US by Christmas. If not, at least give us the black Wii and the pro controller.

Most of us would have been happy with just more Nintendo songs.

i like wii music but more nintendo songs would have been better. i would have love remixing old zelda songs. and why the hell wasn't a ocarina included

I agree, the content offered was the biggest shortcoming of the game. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and Yankee Doodle are useful for instructional purposes, but they aren't going to set anybody's heart ablaze. Even the few pop songs on the disc were bland old hits from the 80s.

To add to Khuutra's license-free Nintendo songs, they could have included more classical compositions without having to pay a license fee. Licensed music could have been added to a DLC store to recoup costs.

Normally, Nintendo's gameplay over content focus is well-founded, but you just can't make a music game without offering some killer content these days.

They know they're ripping off people blind. Gamecube was $99 a couple years after it came out.

I think it was supposed to be a preemptive strike on the competition's motion controls. 

Originally, they hurried with it, because they expected the others to announce their motion controllers at E3 2008 too. When they didn't, Nintendo delayed WM+ to perfect it. 

Now Natal and PurpleWand are finally announced, but they are still awfully far, so they can rest and/or secretly prepare for that battle. But before that, it would be pointless to rush and release crap. 

BTW if I were them, I would bundle every single major first party title with the console, and sell it for 300$. It's not like they would still bring millions of dollars alone, but such a bundle would triplicate the console's sales more effectively than any pricecut.

I predict an NES-colored Wii bundled with New Super Mario Bros. Wii for the holidays. ;)

Ok not really, but that would be major cool.